Re: spam

2000-11-06 Thread Carl B. Constantine
On 11/5/2000 23:10, VosSedai at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Damn Carl thats a bit harsh no? I mean its tough admining a mailing list as > well as everything else they do. Im on several ...Linux related mailing > lists and you think this is bad you should see like the kernel and bug > traq... but a

Re: SPAM :-(

2000-09-29 Thread Carl B. Constantine
On 9/29/2000 02:50, Harshdeep S Jawanda at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > "Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero" wrote: > >> If we are gonna change to another place, I would ask help to GNU or >> SourceForge, they >> give lists to open source projects without ads. > > A good idea. Would anybody wan

Re: SPAM :-(

2000-09-29 Thread James Smaby
>...but I bloody don't want to download it. >There are those sitting on a t3... Even on a T3, I still don't want to download (well, accept) SPAM just on principle. BTW, I don't like egroups.com for a simpler reason than advertisments. I just prefer .org and .edu domains and think orginization

Re: SPAM :-(

2000-09-29 Thread Wandered Inn
Harshdeep S Jawanda wrote: > Other than the advertising (which we know can be done away with), nobody has come up >with > any good objections. Propose to me how I can get the list information via egroups without downloading the ads. It may be possible, I don't know. I know I can strip it out

Re: SPAM :-(

2000-09-29 Thread ebi5
On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Harshdeep S Jawanda wrote: > > ebi5 wrote: > > > Is this a joke? egroups sends an advertisement with every email. Which > > makes every email they send half spam and half list mail. > > Are the responses to my posting a joke? Don't most of the people who > responded in a s

Re: SPAM :-(

2000-09-29 Thread Bruno Postle
On Fri 29-Sep-2000 at 03:10:30PM +0530, Harshdeep S Jawanda wrote: > I really like the facilities that egroups provides me: w/o bothering > the list admin/moderator, I can specify whether I want to get > individual mail messages or to get daily digests or get no mail at all > - read it on the web

Re: SPAM :-(

2000-09-29 Thread Harshdeep S Jawanda
"Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero" wrote: > If we are gonna change to another place, I would ask help to GNU or SourceForge, they > give lists to open source projects without ads. A good idea. Would anybody want to try that out? In fact, why not start thinking about hosting Gimp at SourceFo

Re: SPAM :-(

2000-09-29 Thread Harshdeep S Jawanda
ebi5 wrote: > Is this a joke? egroups sends an advertisement with every email. Which > makes every email they send half spam and half list mail. Are the responses to my posting a joke? Don't most of the people who responded in a similar vein know that it is possible to remove ads from egroups.c

Re: SPAM :-(

2000-09-28 Thread ebi5
On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Harshdeep S Jawanda wrote: > > Lea Anthony wrote: > > > I agree, this is better. Can we not get the s/w updated rather than miss out on > > the list altogether? > > What advantages does hosting this list at the present site have vis. a vis. hosting > this mailing list at e

Re: SPAM :-(

2000-09-28 Thread Alan Buxey
hi, > I've got to say that annoying as spam is htting the delete button isn't > that hard :) you obviously dont have to download around 500k of spam a day over a modem link ;-) at my work address, spam is just a 'd' key away. at home, my old and trusted account has been picked up by more spam

Re: SPAM :-(

2000-09-27 Thread Jon Winters
Harshdeep S Jawanda wrote: > > Lea Anthony wrote: > > > I agree, this is better. Can we not get the s/w updated rather than miss out on > > the list altogether? > > What advantages does hosting this list at the present site have vis. a vis. hosting > this mailing list at egroups.com? egroups.co

Re: SPAM :-(

2000-09-27 Thread Tal Danzig
I've got to say that annoying as spam is htting the delete button isn't that hard :) Tal On Wed, 27 Sep 2000 16:41:00 +0100 (BST), Alan Buxey said: > hi, > > sorry, but if I keep getting SPAM from this mailling list (the last > supposedly coming from "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" - it only takes

Re: SPAM :-(

2000-09-27 Thread Wandered Inn
Alan Buxey wrote: > > hi, > > > egroups bad idea. too many ads > > I use the YAM mailer on my Amiga. its got an ARexx script which reoves the > Ads as you download the mails - you never see them! ;-) But you still download them. I don't want to waste the bandwidth. > > alan -- Until later

Re: SPAM :-(

2000-09-27 Thread Wandered Inn
Steve Rogers wrote: > > Just FYI, the ads can be removed for 48.00 per year. > > I would hazzard to guess that many would gladly chip in a coupl ebucks for that. Nope, I don't pay extortion money. > > Harshdeep S Jawanda wrote: > > > Lea Anthony wrote: > > > > > I agree, this is better. Can

Re: SPAM :-(

2000-09-27 Thread Wandered Inn
Harshdeep S Jawanda wrote: > > Lea Anthony wrote: > > > I agree, this is better. Can we not get the s/w updated rather than miss out on > > the list altogether? > > What advantages does hosting this list at the present site have vis. a vis. hosting > this mailing list at egroups.com? egroups.co

Re: SPAM :-(

2000-09-27 Thread Alan Buxey
hi, > egroups bad idea. too many ads I use the YAM mailer on my Amiga. its got an ARexx script which reoves the Ads as you download the mails - you never see them! ;-) alan

Re: SPAM :-(

2000-09-27 Thread Steve Rogers
Just FYI, the ads can be removed for 48.00 per year. I would hazzard to guess that many would gladly chip in a coupl ebucks for that. Harshdeep S Jawanda wrote: > Lea Anthony wrote: > > > I agree, this is better. Can we not get the s/w updated rather than miss out on > > the list altogether?

RE: SPAM :-(

2000-09-27 Thread Craig Hansen
> -Original Message- > From: Rebecca Jean Pedersen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 12:38 PM > To: Harshdeep S Jawanda > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: SPAM :-( > > > egroups bad idea. too many ads I'd be ha

Re: SPAM :-(

2000-09-27 Thread Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (2000-09-27 at 2214.14 +0530): > What advantages does hosting this list at the present site have vis. a vis. hosting > this mailing list at egroups.com? egroups.com offers all such facilities, plus all > mails remain archived. Advertisment? If we are gonna change to another plac

Re: SPAM :-(

2000-09-27 Thread Rebecca Jean Pedersen
egroups bad idea. too many ads

Re: SPAM :-(

2000-09-27 Thread Harshdeep S Jawanda
Lea Anthony wrote: > I agree, this is better. Can we not get the s/w updated rather than miss out on > the list altogether? What advantages does hosting this list at the present site have vis. a vis. hosting this mailing list at egroups.com? egroups.com offers all such facilities, plus all mail

Re: SPAM :-(

2000-09-27 Thread Lea Anthony
I agree, this is better. Can we not get the s/w updated rather than miss out on the list altogether? -Lea. Alan Buxey wrote: > hi, > > > Yeah, me too. That's the second or third spam I've gotten now. Still, it's > > not the lists fault... > > other lists operate on a 'subscriber only' basis an

Re: SPAM :-(

2000-09-27 Thread Alan Buxey
hi, > Yeah, me too. That's the second or third spam I've gotten now. Still, it's > not the lists fault... other lists operate on a 'subscriber only' basis and check the from/to flags of posters. alan

Re: SPAM :-(

2000-09-27 Thread Lea Anthony
Yeah, me too. That's the second or third spam I've gotten now. Still, it's not the lists fault... -Lea. Alan Buxey wrote: > hi, > > sorry, but if I keep getting SPAM from this mailling list (the last > supposedly coming from "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" - it only takes 2 seconds to > look at the header

Re: Spam via the gimp-user list

2000-02-15 Thread Tony Spangler
"John E. Vincent" wrote: Could anyone verify that they got a spam message about jobs from [EMAIL PROTECTED]? I read over the mail headers and here they are: eturn-Path:      Received:   (from root@localhost) by godspeed.lusis.org (8.9.3/8.8.7) id QAA07637 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; M

Re: Spam via the gimp-user list

2000-02-14 Thread Ian Boreham
Another mailing list I was on had trouble with spam, so the administrator configured it not to accept mail from non-members, which seemed to work pretty well. Is that possible here, and is there anybody who would object? Ian

Re: Spam via the gimp-user list

2000-02-14 Thread Carl B. Constantine
On 2/14/2000 15:00, John E. Vincent at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Could anyone verify that they got a spam message about jobs from > [EMAIL PROTECTED]? Yep. I sent a note to abuse.net about it who then directed it to berkeley. I also sent a note to another domain about the same message. -- ___

Re: spam

1999-10-06 Thread ebi5
The real IP is 209.30.75.94. There is no problem with sending an email to postmaster or abuse or somesuch at flash.net. As a matter of fact this sort of thing is probably much more effective than filters in the long run because you make operators of open relays aware that they are operating same.